[Metadatalibrarians] Call for Papers: Special Themed Issue of the Visual Resources Association Bulletin: “Cataloging Today: Enlarging the Sphere”

[Zoe Waldron]

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Below is a request for proposals for a Special Themed Issue of the Visual
Resources Association Bulletin: “Cataloging Today: Enlarging the Sphere”

This special themed issue of the VRA Bulletin on the state of cataloging
today seeks to explore our cataloging practices in light of the global
semantic web. (Using "cataloging" as a verb, the act of attaching textual
values to an object or digital asset, whether that involves encoding or
not.) Please contact the requestor for a more detailed call for papers, but
here are some key questions/thoughts:
Should we assume that cataloging images and cultural heritage objects will
remain a "manual" (or "supplemented manual") pursuit?
What inroads have been made to match and extract information from images?
How do administrators actually assess cataloging for value and for
efficacy?
Have digital humanities projects and "big data" changed that value (and for
whom)?
Will linked open data and the global semantic web finally conquer the silo,
and what are the implications for our profession?
Will the utility of linked "big data" on the web supersede the more
traditional concept of shared data?
Guest Editor: Susan Jane Williams
Expected Date of Publication: December 2018 or January 2019 (Vol. 45, issue
2)

*For the first round of article submissions, please send a one-page
abstract to Susan Jane Williams at williams.susanjane at gmail.com
<williams.susanjane at gmail.com> by October 15, 2018. *

Zoe Waldron
Metadata Specialist II, Metadata Services Unit
NYPL Digital
New York Public Library
(917) 229-9635 X39635
zoewaldron at nypl.org